TYAN announced dual Pentium Pro I2O Motherboard -- targeted to high performance server market.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1997--TYAN Computer, a leading developer of system boards and add-in cards, today announced the Talon AT, a high performance dual Pentium Pro I2O (Intelligent I/O) A standard for offloading input and output to an auxiliary processor. The auxiliary processor (I/O processor) manages the data transfer while the CPU does something else. system board. The Talon AT will give a significant Input/Output performance boost to servers and other high-end computer systems. The new motherboard, which is upgradable from one to two processors and allows you to choose a wide range of Pentium Pro processor speeds and types (150-200MHz with 256K/512K cache), will ship in May. The Talon AT is priced at $400 in OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and quantities. TYAN's Talon AT utilizes Intel's newest and fastest Pentium Pro chipset, the 440FX PCIset. It has eight PCI slots (four bus master and four I2O-compliant) and three ISA slots, which allows room for PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). expansion and support for older cards. This full size (13x12) AT board includes eight 72-pin SIMM sockets with support for a maximum of 1GB EDO or FPM DRAM. The Talon AT features Intel's i960 I2O processor with Wind River Systems IxWorks RT Operating System installed to implement the I2O architecture. I2O is a new architecture that is being promoted by Intel and others to improve I/O performance by offloading I/O interruptions to free the servers' CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for applications processing. TYAN TYAN Typhoon Analog is a member of the I2O SIG which is spearheading the development of the standard. Novell, Microsoft, and The Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. are among those developing I2O compliant upgrades to their operating systems. Other standard features of the Talon AT include a new LM78 sensor chip, which protects the system from overheating Overheating An economy that is growing very quickly, with the risk of high inflation. and provides a server-level system monitoring with on-board alarms for voltage, fan and heat; an on-board switching voltage regulator; and on-board PCI EIDE (Enhanced IDE) An extension to the IDE interface that supports the ATA-2 and ATAPI standards. ATA-2 (Fast ATA) provides faster transfer rates (see IDE for details) and allows for multiple channels, each connecting two devices. . It also has Super I/O for maximum performance, enabling it to utilize a wide variety of hard disks, CD-ROMs, modems and other peripherals. TYAN offers a choice of Award or AMI Plug n Play Flash BIOS. The Talon AT is backed by a two year warranty. TYAN, founded in 1989 by long-time Intel and IBM executive Dr. Symon Chang, designs, manufactures, and markets advanced Intel-based system board technology. Its products are sold to OEMs, system integrators, VARs, and end-users as workstation and Internet/Intranet acceleration solutions. TYAN's sales have doubled in each of the past three years. Company headquarters is at 1753 S. Main St., Milpitas, CA, 95035. Phone is 408/956-8000, fax 408/956-8044, home page www.TYAN.com -0- Note to Editors: All trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: TYAN Computer Lee Shaeffer/Cathy Nguyen, 408/956-8000 lshaeffer@tyan.com cathyn@tyan.com or Hill/LF Communications Chad Hill or Len Fernandes, 510/945-7910 or 510/538-8916 hillcomm@aol.com lencom@earthlink.net |
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